"Trump will never willingly leave office."
It's a refrain I hear often & attempt to debunk regularly.
CNN's Kaitlyn Collins was assigned to the front row in yesterday's W. H. Press Briefing. She regularly embarrasses Trump. Usually by just asking him about things he's said.
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Trump did not want CNN in the front row. He tried to have Mrs. Collins moved to the back. She asks tough questions & likely had a few lined up about injecting bleach.
Due to the rules inside the WH Press Room, the WH doesn't control what press is present or where they sit.
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Both Collins and the reporter who was told by the WH to switch seats refused to do so.
At this point, based on multiple reports, the Secret Service was invoked to attempt to get Mrs. Collins to move to the back.
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The Secret Service refused. Collins kept her front row seat. Trump spoke for a much shorter than usual 25 mins or so. Then he left without taking questions & subsequently tweeted that the briefings are pointless because the news asks hostile questions and gets big ratings but
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...America gets nothing but fake news
He tried to exert his authority to embarrass a female reporter. A simple rule prevented him from doing so. The secret service refused to get involved in his lunacy. He cut his briefing short and left in a huff, retreating to Twitter...
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...to attempt to reframe his powerlessness as victimhood, his pettiness as justice, and his cowardice as strength.
He closed his remarkably obtuse & self-absorbed tweet with "Not worth the time & effort!" His justification for the proclaimed abandonment of his own...
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...government-funded daily campaign events, which negatively impact his polls and constantly expose his weaknesses. A political gift of a must-run crisis management communication platform irreparably damaged by nothing other than his own words and opinions.
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This is exactly what he will do when he is beaten, powerless, ashamed, and afraid come January 2021.
Give up and complain to the world about it until he believes we believe it was his choice.
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"Never attribute to malice that which can be adequately explained by stupidity."
- Hanlon's Razor
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